# Add or remove an email address from your profile

#### Adding email addresses to your profile and mark them as preferred

1. Go to your profile page at <https://openreview.net/profile>
2. Click 'Edit Profile'.
3. Locate the 'Emails' section and click the blue plus sign underneath your name.
4. Enter your email and then click 'Confirm'. An email will be sent to your new address.
5. DO NOT close your current window/tab. The verification number sent to your inbox needs to be input in the same window/tab.
6. Confirm that email by pasting the verification code and clicking on Verify.

If you would like to make that email preferred, you can do so by clicking ‘Edit profile’ once more and selecting ‘Make Preferred’ next to your desired email. The option to make an email preferred will not appear until you have confirmed the new email to your profile.

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We recommend adding at least one permanent (non-institutional) email to your profile to allow you to retain ownership of your account should you lose access to your institutional email
{% endhint %}

#### Removing email addresses from your profile

OpenReview uses email addresses associated with current or former affiliations for profile deduplication, conflict detection, and paper coreference. For this reason, OpenReview prefers to keep all current and former institutional email addresses on each user's profile. OpenReview will only send messages to the address marked as “Preferred”. OpenReview only displays obfuscated emails (\*\*\*\*@umass.edu) and never releases full email addresses to the public.

If there is an email address you want removed from your profile, please fill out the [Feedback Form](https://openreview.net/contact). Please note that if you have changed institutions, we ask you to add and confirm your new institutional email before requesting that we remove an old or expired email.


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